Improved-apparatus for regulating the pressure and delivery of gas



W. A. SIMQNDS, Gas Regulator.

Patented Au 15, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, WARREN A. snuosns, or sosron, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE PRESSURE AND DELIVERY OEGAS. v

$pccilication forming part of Lctters Patent No. 49.449, dated August-l5, 1865. a

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WARREN A. SnuoNns, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have inyented a new and Improved Apparatus for Regulating the Pressure and Delivery of (Jarbureted Air, Gas, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a lull and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a vertical section. Fig. 2 is a top view with the holder removed; and Fig. b shows a screw regulator-valve with pulley, &c., for operating the same.

The nature of my invention relates to the construction and arrangement of parts of an apparatus for regulating the pressure and delivery of destructively-distilled or other gases, air, water, or other liquids where uniform deliveryis required, and it consists, first, in constructing the holder in the form of adouble cylinder, both of which are attached to the same base and made tight, so as to form a double reservoir, the outer of which, between the cylinders, contains water, oil, or other suitableliquid packing, as hereinafter described, and the inner, which is the inside of the small cylinder, forholdin g the carbureted air or gas 5 second, in combining with the double cylinder reservoir, as above, the necessary opening for the recep tion and discharge of the gas, as hereinafter specified; third, in combining with a double cylinder, as above,afloating holder orreservoir, open at the bottom but tightly closed at top, the said reservoir to float in the outside reservoir and between the two cylinders, as hereinafter described; fourth, in combining with the inletopening to the inside reservoir a plug or screw valve connected with a reversible double pulley or other equivalent means operated by a cord or cords one end of which is connected to the top inside of the floating holder, while the other end has a weight attached sufficient to reverse and open the cook or valve when the holder falls, as hereinafter described; and,

fifth, in an arrangement of pulleys, cords, and weight in connection with the floating holder.

In the drawings, Arepresents the base, which in this instance forms also the top of a carbonizing apparatus, and to this base the two upright drums or cylinders B and B are tightly secured. The inner cylinder is from one to two inches (more or less) smaller in diameter, leaving sufficient space to insert between thelna third cylinder or floating holder, 0, open atbottom and closed at top. The outer reservoir, 1), or space between cylinders BB, is to contain water, oil, or other suitable liquid for packing and preventing the escape of the gas, 850., from the inside reservoir, E. l

F is a. cross-pi'ece, provided with pulleys at I), over which the cordO runs, saidcord being attached to the center ofholder (hand, provided with a weight, (I, forsustaining in part the weight of the holder, and thereby regulating the pressure more or less as may be required.

0 is an inlet-opening through which .the carbonized air, gas, water, or other fluid passes from the carbonizirig-machine into holder or.

regulator U.

U is an opening or man-holeiu the top of holder 0, which may be closed by any suitable means, as shown, and is for the purpose of adjusting the valve-cords.

f is a valve or cook, which may be made in any usual, as globe or screw, form; but for practice I prefe r the screw-valve as less abrupt and better serving to graduate the supply. 3 This valve is operated by its connection with shaft g, which is furnished with the double pulley II, It, having cords 't' i attached at one end, the other ends of which are attached, that of 'i to the same. Now, untilameans of escape is provided there can be no further supply. The moment a vent is created, as by the lighting of burners connected with the holder through suitable pipes at one or more points, k, or other wise, the weight, acting on the pulley as the holder falls, gradually opens the valve until such a position of the valve is attained as makes the supply to the holder just equal to the demand thereon.

When connected with an automatic carburctin g apparatus such as described in my former patents and in another application filed herewith the operation will be readily appreciated, as the gradual closing of the valve by the falling and rising of the holder graduates the manufacture of the burning material until the valve closes, when the carbureter ceases to operate, there being no further escape of the manufactured material.

The parts are susceptible of variation in form without departure from the principle of construction herein described and shown. For instance, the graduating-valve may be conneeted with the outlet from, instead of the inlet to, the regulator or holder, and the pulley it maybe single instead of double, as shown, &c.

It is obvious that this regulator may be applied in a different manner from that shown, and may be used wherever a uniform delivery of any gaseous or liquid substance is desirable or necessary.

WhatIelaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, the double oylindersBB, the bell O, and the interior mechanism or its equivalent, as shown, for the purpose specified.

2. A double-cylinder reservoir with two or more openings in and through the bottom, one for the inlet, others for outlet or outlets within the inside reservoir, in combination with the regulator-valve shown in Fig. 3, or its equivalent, as set forth.

3. The construction of a floating reservoir, open at the bottom but tight at the top, with a man-hole at its center for connections from the in and out side, the said reservoir to float in the outside reservoir and between the in and out side cylinders when used,'l'or purposes herein described.

4. Connecting to the inlet-opening upon the inside a plug or screw valve with a reversible double pulleyto be operated byacord or cords, one end of which is connected upon the inside of the top of the floating holder, while on the end of said cords is a weight sufficient to reverse and open the cock or valve when the holder falls, as specified.

5. The arrangement of the pulleys in the cross-piece F and the cord and weight, in combination with the floating holder for sustaining in part the weight of the holder, as specified.

WARREN A. SIMONDS. Witnesses:

ED'M. F. BROWN, 1%. Moanow. 

